But now she was happy, and could be just like those other girls in love who'd given bentos to the boys that they'd given their hearts to. "I'll get my own version of a high school romance now.... Heh-heheheheheheheheheh.... HAHAHAHA!"
"Akane? Are you okay?" her husband asked, worry tinging his voice.
"Who, me? Just fine. Why do you ask?"
"Well, ya were laughin' only a moment ago...."
"That was nothing, absolutely nothing," she told him, and gave him a weak attempt at a reassuring smile. "Don't worry about it... hee hee hee...."
"Oh. Okay...."
"Good, good...."
Ranma put his hands behind his head as he walked down the hall. "I guess that you're happy now, though. Right?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Think 'bout it. That Kuno jerk ain't gonna be able ta bother ya, and those idiots from out front know that ya are already taken."
"You're right on that. And you know what?"
"What?"
"We're here," she told him, and smiled as she waved at the door.
"So, this is it?"
"Exactly. So, let's go in," Akane suggested, and slid open the door... only to get that space at standing height filled with the faces of excited girls.
As for Ranma, he wound up jumping back as soon as the inner windows slammed open, and he got to see as they were replaced by a group of boys.
"It really looks like the two of you are together!" called out one student over the chaos of voices.
"Tell us!" said another. "How did the two of you meet?!"
A girl clasped her hands to her chest and sighed. "Married and in high school, so romantic!"
"But if you love her so much, then why'd you abandon her?!" asked a second girl.
"Hey! My old man made me go ta China!" Ranma protested.
"Didn't you have a choice?"
"NO!"
"Well then, we have only one thing that we can do now...."
"And that is?"
"Ranma Saotome.... WE HAVE TO TALK TO YOU!"
"About wha... AHHHH! Hey! Don't yank!" the pigtailed boy yelped as he found himself dragged into a corner of the classroom.
As she couldn't get past the other students without hurting them, Akane found herself only able to sigh in disappointment. "I should have known that this was going to happen."
"Get your husband taken away from you just as he's come back, I see," murmured a familiar voice.
"It's not like that, Sayuri."
The girl with the ponytail shrugged. "Yeah, but it's not like you really got a chance to go on a honeymoon, or something like that with him."
"You don't have to remind me."
"Wasn't trying to, but I'd have thought that you'd have been able to find some time with him. And after marrying him like you did?"
"It was such a lovely wedding, wasn't it?" Yuka asked, smiling dreamily as she slipped into favored memories. "It was really wonderful to be there at that moment...."
"Wasn't it though? I never thought that I'd be part of wedding party that, and for one of my friends...."
"It's sure different than being there for a relative, or a friend of the family."
"That's right," Sayuri agreed.
"There is only one thing that I do have to wonder though."
"And that is...."
"Did you and he... be man and wife?" the girl with the long brown hair asked, wiggling her eyebrows at her married friend. "You know, get all close to him?"
"What kind of question is that?!" Akane growled.
"A simple one. You're the only friend that I have who has a husband, so.... Did you? Did you do it?"
"Couldn't do it even if I really tried."
"Eh?"
The married girl kept her face expressionless, and spoke the same way. "Dad's been flipping out since he heard that I was married, and he's been chasing after Ranma for 'corrupting' me or something. And since Ranma's already nervous about that sort of thing, we can't even do simple things."
"It can't be that bad...."
"He popped in when I was taking a bath, and when we were going to sleep."
"Okay, it is bad."
Sayuri put her fingers to her head and sighed. "I guess that we should have expected something to happen, but that's a bit much...."
"You're telling me," the martial artist muttered. "I don't know what could come next."
"Akane!" called out a voice from across the room.
"Oh no...."
"We have to ask you things too!"
Akane's eyes went wide as she realized that her freedom from the questions had just gone away.
There was a rather large bandage across his nose, but Tatewaki Kuno was not about to let something so simple bother him. He had more important things to consider, as it had been declared that his beloved Akane Tendo was, in fact, wed to another. Ever since he'd first seen her graceful form, and her wondrous body, he'd admired her. As soon as he'd discovered her power, he'd realized that she was the girl for him. However, the fair goddess was supposed to have been wed, which would have been a fact that he should have known.
If she really was already wed, then it would mean that he would have been going after another man's wife. Yet, it did not seem possible that she, who had always had deep feelings for him, could actually have desired to pledge her troth to another. And the information was both suspect and quite possibly true at the same time, given that it was put forth by the sister of Akane, Nabiki Tendo.
Frowning deeply, he crossed his arms over his chest and decided that:
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